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[UPDATE 8/9/2007] I fixed the broken link to power tools page. [UPDATE 9/8/2006] TFPT is now available in its own small download: http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=5422499! You no longer need to download the VS SDK. You can find more information about the September '06 release here.One of the features that we ha...
Rob Caron posted the following the other day, and I've copied it below. If you want to learn more about how we cache versions of files to speed up downloads, including get, view, diff, and more, you'll want to take a look at this. Team Foundation Server Proxy Screencasts We just posted a series of six screencasts by Swamy Subramanian, a devel...
Many of you probably know that you can specify your own diff/merge tool. One thing that's not mentioned on that documentation page is that you can specify * for the Extension field to change the default diff or merge tool.James Manning recently put together a nice post on configuring different diff and merge tools, making it easier to properl...
As part of the information about a workspace, the version control server records the name of the computer that hosts a workspace and the user that owns the workspace. If you need to change your computer name or your user name, how do you tell the server to update the workspace information?The command line, tf.exe, provides two options, /updat...
One of the features from VSS that TFS does not support "out of the box" is shadow folders. Last year, one of our interns, Philip, wrote short guide to setting up shadow folder for TFS by using Scheduled Tasks in Windows (he also wrote tfpt.exe). I've attached the MS Word document to this post. You can read the introduction below. ...
The following question came up in the forum: "How do I delete the custom work item type that I created?" Tony Edwards posted the following. One other thing that comes to my mind is to have a second server to use for experimentation before applying changes to the production server. It is not possible in v1 [to delete work item type...
In response to a forum question about how to list the process templates on the server, Tony Edwards, a developer on Work Item Tracking, posted the following code snippet showing how to do it. The TeamFoundationServer object provides a number of services, including one for dealing with process templates. Here is a simple console pro...
Brian Harry has a new post requesting your input for the next version of TFS. The team has just started planning for TFS, so now is the best time to let him know what you would like to have in the next version. Team Foundation Server and the Future With V1 now mostly behind us we're starting to look ahead to what comes next. We're colle...
Recently someone asked how to estimate the space required for the databases on a Team Foundation Server. To do that, we can take a look at our own dogfood server to see where the space goes. With that information and some knowledge of how the system works, we can come up with a useful way to estimate the approximate space required by th...
Robert Horvick, now a dev on the version control team, has been writing a series of posts on using the branch and merge API methods. If you want to explore that area, I recommend checking out his posts.Following merge history using the TFS command line is the introductory look at what he's trying to do. Then he walks through creati...